Here is all of the bad letters I got conserning IslandEJP@aol.com (a.k.a Gooni):
cltala@maila.wm.edu wrote:
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delaneys@visuallink.com wrote:
These people are totally fake! It IS too good to be true. They will never send you what they offer, then when you write to complain they will accuse you of harassing them, and start threatening you! We have chatted with lots of other pony traders about Gooni, some have been ripped off really bad. We bought a lot from them on Ebay, sounded great and nobody else bid. Before we sent the money we got tons of warning messages from other nice people, warning us. So we told them that we would only do business through an intermediate party; E bay has a service available where you send your money to a third party, and when the product gets to them they release the money to the seller. We would pay for this service, but Gooni refused; because of course they never intended to really send out anything. They are pretty much banned from ebay now, so they try to steal from unsuspecting traders.
USERPANIC@aol.com wrote:
I wouldn't trust her. In several emails I received from her during my trying to purchase these items she stated that they were her daughters, her grand-daughters, a friends, hers, and I can't even remember who else. In every email they belonged to someone different and she was selling them for someone different. After finding out she was supposedly moving a few days after the auction closed, she wouldn't give me a new mailing address in order for me to send payment to. One time she said her friend was going to check her mail and when her friend brought her the money, then she would send me the ponies. The next time she said that it was her friends mailing address that I'd be mailing payment to cause she wasn't sure where she'd be and her friend would take care of getting the payment to her when it was received. Again something different. After all that we agreed she'd send me the ponies COD cause she needed the money really really bad. She also said that I could look over them then pay her what I felt they were worth cause she needed the money now. She never sent them. After the COD thing she would send me emails periodically stating for me to send her the money NOW or else suffer the consquences. The consquences being I'd get negative fb or she'd give my ponies to someone more deserving. I don't believe she ever had them to send. I had no problems paying for them, even before receiving them, but I felt with information changing in every email something wasn't right. One lady that actually paid for her items never received them...at least up until our last contact about 3 weeks ago. The auction ended a few days prior to the negative feedback I left her, I can't even remember how long its been, but its been long enough for Goonie to have received the payment from the one lady and for the lady to have received her items. Be careful, if it's too good to be true, then with her it probably isn't true. I hope this information helps. If you decide to take a chance please let me know what happens. I'm not being nosy or anything just curious. Also from the emails I've been receiving from others, she seems to be mis-representing her items. If you'd like I can tell you about those, but one girl emailed her asking for a picture of this item she had and she received a strange email back with other pictures - now her scanner is broken but what happened to me was a little different. Sometime after auction closed she sent me an email - as she states in her ad. She doesn't tell you in her ad that if you don't confirm receipt of her email in a few hours she's going to threaten to give your items to goodwill. She also doesn't give you a location of item or tell you that she's moving and doesn't have time to wait for a confirmation reply, which is why you have to acknowledge her almost immediately. She doesn't tell you that your mailing fee is going to be increased from $6.00 to $14.00 and when questioned about it refuses to take less than $10 for mailing, even though the ad said $6 and actual mailing fee should only be $3.00. She also said that the postal clerk was stealing from her by pocketing the difference in mailing fees and what she paid, even so I still had to pay higher fees that originally quoted. She doesn't make comments in her ad that I will give you the satisfaction of knowing that I will send you your items cause I couldn't find the Salvation Army. Her first email sent at 10:43 PM gave me until 1 AM to respond, the 2nd email said I was now 40 mins late and if I didn't respond by 2 AM she was giving them to Goodwill. I didn't get a chance to read her emails until 3 PM and explained this to her in my response, thats when I got the she'd give me the satisfaction... I didn't like the idea that I was given a time limit without knowing it, that she threatened to easily and was very impatient and mis-represented the fees. All that and the tone of her emails sent up warning flags. In my mind if your willing to mis-represent fees what else are you mis-representing. Her emails also included other things that didn't necessarily pertain to ponies or auctions which also made me worry. She trashed ebay saying she would never sell on it again and wasn't concerned about feedback and didn't even know what feedback was until I explained it to her (trying to ease my mind about her). She also mis-represented fees that ebay charges saying she was having to pay 25% of the sale of her items and whoever heard of such outragious fees. (I explained to her the fees also) She blamed postal employees of giving her the false mailing fees. Several things have been brought to my attention since. She claims she knows nothing about ponies yet almost if not all her items are rare ones. I received about a dozen emails from other pony friends that say they have been watching her and don't feel she can be trusted they think its a take the money and run situation. Things just don't look right. My opinion is she can't be trusted.
I have also had a sort of dealing with her myself:
I was contacted by her sending me a list off all of the ponies that she wanted off of my trade list and the ones that she had for trade off my want list (including Clipper, Rapunsel, all 3 soft sleepy newborns {w/ clothes}, and many others). I tried to make the most even deal I could, and matched up each one of her ponies with a few of mine (making the even trades because they are rare ponies). Then, she sends me back a message setting up her own trades that she thinks is fair (That was a joke!! Like 4 ponies for one uncommon one!). I explained to her what the problem was and she admitted to me that she was only trying to include EVERY pony on my trade list that she wanted. Then, she said that she could get some more rare ponies from her cousin or something so that would make the deal more fair. We finnally worked out a deal where she got all the ones that she wanted from my list and I was about to send them out the next day when I received the ABOVE notices about her. I told her that I had heard some bad things about her and said that I would promise to send out my package the day that I received her's, she did not agree. I also tried to have her split the trade in half, half in the first shipment, the other half in a second shipment after the first was received... she refused. Then she offered to use the COD thing and since I heard about what happened before... I refused. Then I just said that we would both send out the packages on Friday and forget about the whole thing. ...I know... I know... I lied... but how else was I going to get her to send out the package???? Anyway... It's been over 2 weeks now, and it shouldn't even take a week to get a package from Florida here... espessially since she said she sent it pridority. I don't trust her, and I hope u make a good decision before sending 26 ponies to her like I almost did...
So, there u have it. If u have a story about IslandEJP@aol.com or anyone else that u have had a bad trade with, e-mail me and I'll put it on my page to warn everyone else who are the bad traders.
I have also been told she has some other aliases on ebay:
Gooni
IslandsEJP
IslandsDJP@aol.com
OceansEP@aol.com
and possibly anything that has EP or EJP at the end.
Thanx for your time,
Windwhistler